Labor Violations
Posted on March 19, 2015 in HR Insights for Health Care
Written by: Stephen W. Lyman
A Helpful Memo? Almost every employer has an employee handbook of some sort or at least a set of rules and policies that are established to let employees know what is expected of them. In the private sector, the NLRB has been focusing for several years on rules and policies that are too broad... READ MORE
Posted on December 11, 2014 in HR Insights for Health Care
Written by: Stephen W. Lyman
Rejecting and overruling its 2007 decision in Register Guard that limited employee rights to use employer email systems for union organizing, the NLRB, in a three to two decision, significantly broadened the scope of private employee rights to use an employer’s email system for union organizing purposes and other protected activity. The decision focused on... READ MORE
Posted on August 8, 2014 in HR Insights for Health Care
Written by: Jonathan C. Bumgarner
President Obama’s latest Executive Order (“EO”) is entitled “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces,” but its requirements on federal contractors go beyond compensation and safety. The good news is that implementation of these new requirements is not expected to be begin until 2016. By then, we hope to have new regulations that better explain the... READ MORE
